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Editor, The Kiyosaki Letter

Friday, August 21, 2026

Fujairah was supposed to be safe, but the missiles followed.

Before the war, 20.7 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz every day. The strait is the narrow passage between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. About a quarter of all seaborne oil flowed through it.

Then Iran closed it. Flows dropped to 14.6 million barrels per day. Gulf producers activated the backup plan: pipelines that route oil around the strait and out through other ports. The pipelines are running. They are also under fire.

Gulf states built bypass pipelines to escape one chokepoint. Each pipeline created a new exit point. Iran or its proxies moved to contest each new exit. The chokepoint did not disappear. It moved.

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The UAE's first answer was a pipeline called ADCOP. It runs 380 kilometers from Abu Dhabi's oil fields to the port of Fujairah. Fujairah sits on the Gulf of Oman coast, outside the strait. The pipeline carries up to 1.8 million barrels per day. Before the war, the UAE produced about 3.4 million. ADCOP could handle roughly half.

Iran struck Fujairah directly. In March 2026, drone attacks set fires at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone. On May 4, Iran launched 12 ballistic missiles, four cruise missiles, and four drones at the UAE. One strike hit the VTTI oil terminal.

Then Iran made a broader claim. Its new port authority, the PGSA, published a map. The map defines Iran's control zone as stretching to "south of Fujairah." The Institute for the Study of War concluded this lays an explicit claim to UAE and Oman waters. The bypass exit now sits inside Iran's declared zone.

Observation: Iran struck the port of Fujairah at least twice and published a map claiming the surrounding waters.
Interpretation: Iran is contesting the exit point, not just the strait. The pipeline works. The port it leads to is a target.

Saudi Arabia had its own route. The East-West pipeline runs from the kingdom's eastern oil fields to Yanbu on the Red Sea coast. It now pumps at full capacity. That is 7 million barrels per day. Saudi crude exports through Yanbu hit about 4.1 million barrels per day.

This shifted massive volumes of oil onto a new path. Flows through Bab al-Mandeb, the narrow strait at the Red Sea's southern end, surged from 4.2 million barrels per day in 2025 to 7.4 million by June 2026.

Then Iran's proxy moved. On July 20, the Houthis, an Iran-backed group in Yemen, declared a full maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia. One week later, they struck pipeline infrastructure linking eastern Saudi Arabia to Yanbu.

Observation: Red Sea oil flows surged by roughly three-quarters. Then the Houthis declared a blockade and hit the pipeline feeding them.
Interpretation: The same pattern. A bypass route draws volume. The new exit gets contested. The chokepoint follows the oil.

Two bypasses. Two contested exits. The pattern is visible now.

The UAE is building a second pipeline to double its export capacity out of Fujairah. The project costs $3 billion. It stretches 300 kilometers. It is already 50 percent complete and expected to come online in 2027.

It terminates at the same port Iran has already struck. The same port inside Iran's claimed control zone.

The UAE's pre-war production was 3.4 million barrels per day. ADCOP's maximum is 1.8 million. The gap explains the rush. But the destination has not changed.

Sasha Foss, an energy analyst at CSC Commodities, told The National that before pipelines are completed "is the point of maximum leverage for Iran." Iran's Speaker of Parliament reportedly said in June that "management of the Strait will never return to the way it was before the war."

Observation: The UAE's $3 billion second pipeline, half-built, leads to a port already under fire and inside Iran's claimed zone.
Interpretation: The next bypass heads toward a known vulnerability. Iran has stated it intends permanent pressure on strait transit. The window before completion is when that pressure peaks.

Three signals are worth tracking over the coming weeks.

First, any further Iranian strikes on Fujairah or the Gulf of Oman coast. The port is a proven target. As the second pipeline nears completion, the incentive to disrupt it grows.

Second, Houthi activity around Bab al-Mandeb. The maritime blockade declared in July has not been fully tested. Saudi Arabia's entire bypass strategy depends on that route staying open.

Third, PGSA enforcement. Iran's map is published. The claim is on paper. Whether Iran begins stopping commercial vessels near Fujairah will determine how much the bypass actually reduces risk.

The forces are plain. Gulf producers need exits that avoid Hormuz. Iran needs every exit to carry risk. Each new pipeline changes the map. It does not change the contest.

Gulf oil now flows through more routes than before the war. Each new route has drawn a new threat. The chokepoint moved. It did not disappear.

Until next time,
The Navigator